NatureServe Web Services

Species Images Service

NatureServe Explorer provides access to a collection of species images.
The Species Images Service provides direct access to the metadata for those images, including the URL's for the image
files themselves. Searches may be conducted for a single species, or by wildcarded scientific or common name. Since an
image may be available at multiple resolutions, the service can be asked, for instance, for just the thumbnail version.
The URL's for related versions at other resolutions are shown in the response.

NOTE: Please ensure that any usage of an image complies with the terms and conditions shown in the
termsAndConditions element. It is extremely important that the image permissions bestowed by the rights holder
are respected and that the rights holder is credited whenever an image is displayed.

URL

https://services.natureserve.org/idd/rest/ns/v1/globalSpecies/images

Parameters

Exactly one of either the uid, scientificName or
commonName parameters is required.
If multiple parameters are presented, the service gives preference to
uid, then scientificName,
then commonName, and silently ignores the other supplied parameters.

Parameter

Description

uid

The Unique ID for a single species in NatureServe Explorer, e.g., ‘ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.453627’.